The Dream Team Kilimanjaro-DTEKI

To climb Mount Kilimanjaro on the Machame route  means to share the mountain with many other trekkers. Ever since the budget operators discovered Machame the traffic on the route has been growing. It soon overtook the Marangu route as the most heavily trafficked climb route on Mount Kilimanjaro. The reason is not only that prices have been dropping.  The Machame route is considered the most scenic route up Kilimanjaro. However, that's not really true. The Machame route is a very scenic route, but not the only one. Both the Shira route and the Lemosho route share the same path as the Machame route after the first day or two. But they are less trafficked and ideally longer, so they are more expensive. It would be more correct to say Machame is the most scenic Kilimanjaro route that you can climb with a budget operator. (If it's a good idea to  climb Mt. Kilimanjaro with a budget operator , that's of course a different question.) Climbing Kilimanjaro on

Babati and Hanang : Babati district is located along the Arusha-Dodoma road in the Rift Valley, south of Lake Manyara Park and west from Tarangire. The town boasts Lake Babati where floating hippos can be seen and which is rich in fish, both tilapia and Nile perch. Here commercial and farming tribes co-exist with conservative cattle herding tribes to provide a distinguished cultural contrast. In Hanang District close by the beautiful  Mount Hanang (3418m), live the Barbaig people whose traditional culture is still unchanged and unspoiled. The   women wear traditional goatskin dresses and the men walk around with spears. Visitors can mix freely with the Barbaig, commonly known as the Mang’ati living in the Mang’ati plains. If you are interested in bird watching, 400 bird species will welcome you on your walks in the area. Welcome to the fertile lands and farmland where most crops grow on the edge of the Rift Valley. Here you can walk and see a mixture of tribal cultures and rural

Ndutu Woodlands  : Acacia trees, resident giraffes, impalas and elephants in the dry season Mount Oldeani  : Forested crater Lake Eyasi  : The largest soda lake in Tanzania , with diverse cultures settled around the area. Explore the real bushmen, the Hadzabe and the Datoga tribe. Lake Natron  : Engaresero river gorge, breeding flamingos in the soda lake and rift cliffs. Empakai Crater  : No roads and no human inhabitants, a crater which contains forests and a deep lake, where flocks of flamingos can be spotted. The cardera is six kilometers wide and the lake occupies nearly half of its floor. The scenery is spectacular at every point. From the northern and eastern side you can look out to the dramatic cone of Oldonyo Lengai, the Great Rift Valley and Lake Natron . On the valleys eastern side you might see the snow capped peak of Kilimanjaro . It is possible to camp on the rim and hike into the crater with an armed ranger. Olmoti crater  : This shallow grassy crater is